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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two different ways that God and angels speak in Scripture, as identified in Book Three?
(a) In spiritual terms and human terms.
(b) Of signs and things.
(c) With cruelty and kindness.
(d) Figuratively and literally.

2. What does Augustine call signs that are only used to express and transmit thoughts?
(a) Natural signs.
(b) Signs that are words.
(c) Given signs.
(d) Signs that are things.

3. What should sermons not do, according to Augustine?
(a) Divide a Christian community.
(b) Give unbelievers the opportunity to mock God.
(c) Confuse the laity.
(d) Exhibit the pride of the speaker.

4. What does Augustine believe should be the least important aim of a Scriptural speaker?
(a) Getting along with an audience.
(b) Impressing the audience with knowledge.
(c) Winning the approval of an audience.
(d) Giving pleasure to the audience.

5. What does Augustine write is incompatible with love?
(a) Using things without seeking wisdom is incompatible with love.
(b) Using things for non-Scriptural purposes is incompatible with love.
(c) Using things without the goal of enjoying them is incompatible with love.
(d) Coveting things for one's self is incompatible with love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two other purposes that Augustine's reference claims a speaker must pursue?

2. According to Augustine, of the different forms through which the grammar types show themselves, which is, by definition, the most difficult to interpret?

3. What is a regret that Augustine voices in the final paragraph of "On Christian Doctrine"?

4. According to Augustine in Book Two, in order for the student to become an effective teacher, what two skills must the student master?

5. What are subjects that Augustine identifies that 'must be learned'?

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